jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
At en we have proven largely willing to say to photographers that their work is not valued. We pay a kind of lip service to how great it is to have freely-licensed material, but it is regularly replaced by more professional-looking images found elsewhere on the web under a "fair use" claim. That would certainly suggest that doing photography for en is not worth one's time.
I'm still a little mystified by this claim. To date I've uploaded about 2,000 of my own photos, and I can't recall a single article where one of my photos has been replaced by a nonfree image. On the contrary, I see my pics showing up unexpectedly in additional articles. That's not to say replacement doesn't happen, no mechanism to notify if it did, but when I spot-check, I don't see anything going on. So where exactly is all this replacement with nonfree happening?
Stan